CECILIA2050

Choosing Efficient Combinations of Policy Instruments for Low-carbon development and Innovation to Achieve Europe's 2050 climate targets

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Europe needs to transform itself to a low-carbon economy by mid-century. The existing instrument mix needs to be scaled up drastically to initiate the changes needed across the economy. As the scale and scope of instruments increases, their interaction becomes more important, as do constraints on the political, legal and administrative feasibility. To evaluate their efficiency and effectiveness, instruments cannot be viewed in isolation; understanding and managing their interaction becomes key.

The CECILIA2050 project analyses the performance of existing climate policy instruments and their interaction, and maps pathways for the evolution of the instrument mix in Europe. It describes ways to improve the economic efficiency and environmental effectiveness of the instrument mix, and to address constraints that limit their performance or feasibility. These include public acceptance, availability of finance and the physical infrastructure, but also the administrative and legal framework.

The first, backward-looking part of the project takes stock of the existing instrument mix in the EU and its Member States, and assesses their coherence and past performance. It describes which factors determine their efficiency and effectiveness, and measures their effects on equity, innovation and competitiveness. The second, forward-looking part maps pathways towards a more ambitious policy mix for 2030 and 2050, starting from the current EU climate policy. With economic instruments at the heart of the mix, it describes and models how the instrumentation could evolve, based on scenarios of the magnitude of change required for the low-carbon transformation. To this end, it combines the state of the art modelling tools with qualitative and participatory methods. To complement the EU-level analysis, the effects of EU climate policies are quantified at the global level. To ensure policy relevance and mobilise practitioners’ knowledge, the project engages with stakeholders in different way.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

To realise its vision of a competitive low-carbon economy in 2050, the EU must be able to collectively manage its various climate policies. An EU initiative is providing solutions to make policy instruments more effective and efficient.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

The EU has set out a cost-effective path to achieving much deeper emission cuts by the middle of the century. To help guide this ambitious roadmap and deal with the transformation to a more climate-friendly and less energy-consuming economy, policies need to be considered as a whole. This allows decision makers to better understand, manage and assess the variety of climate-related policies across the EU.

With EU funding, the http://www.cecilia2050.eu/ (CECILIA2050) project is analysing how policy instruments interrelate, what influences their performance and how they should evolve to lead the transition towards a low-carbon economy. It places particular emphasis on economic instruments.

Project members began by identifying an optimal combination of climate policy instruments to meet the 2050 targets. They assessed the current policy mix at EU level and in eight Member States through a series of country reports. The team then evaluated the coherence and past performance of the existing policy mix based on environmental effectiveness, cost efficiency, and political, administrative and legal feasibility.

Project partners produced a series of in-depth studies based on the results. These reports analysed the impacts and limitations of the existing climate policy instruments on a wide range of sectors, namely transport, power, building, cement and steel, and food and agriculture.

CECILIA2050 is providing a new starting point for measuring Europe's present and future climate policies and their linkages. The EU will be able to look beyond previous policy evaluation methods as it transitions to clean technologies for its industry and economy over the next decades.